Magnetic Los Angeles

Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of dispersion without planning and lacking any discernable order. Using Los Angeles as a case study Greg Hise argues that the twentieth-century metropolitan region is the product of conscious planning-by policy makers industrialists design professionals community builders and homebuyers-in direct response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression the defense emergency and the immediate postwar years.